Interaction in the large: developing a framework for integrating models in HCI

With the continuing expansion of HCI concerns, the field encompasses many local models. We have, for example, models of individual users and computers; models of group settings of system use, including the modeling of social, organizational and technological features; and models of the context and environment of system use. In the course of systems development, several of these models may be used. But it is in general unclear how they are, or may be, interrelated or integrated with each other. Understandings of how such models may be related and of the semantics of their relationships are important both to HCI as a discipline and to systems development practice.